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Heason to date Last year to date Normal precipitation Trace ...17.00 ...11.44 ...11.40 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH FALLS, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1938 (Every Morning Except Monday) Vol. 15, No. 186 Price Five Cents Roaring Wind Through Plant 35 Bodies JAPANESE WARN FOREIGNERS TO BE ON LOOKOUT From Wreckage of Passenger Coaches How a strong wind was whipping the flames Is shown in 'his graphic picture of the Sprague lllvnr fire which Into Huturiloy destroyed the box factory, warehouse and planing mill of the Crater Lake Lumber compnoy. The picture was taken after the blase had reduced a portion of the plant to great piles of burning embore and twisted machinery. mscel Photo by Ilrownie Willis CITY REELECTS SCHOOL HEADS A.

M. Collier, Mrs. Anna Hawkins Defeat Two Remaining Candidates SCHOOL BOARD KLECTION RKSl'LTS A. M. Collier 43 Anna' Hawkins 320 Mrs.

Nelson Reed 'XO Bam H. Ackerman Sa Elected. PARTIAL LIST OF DEAD IN MONTANA TRAIN DISASTER MILES CITY, June 20 (UP) Identified dead in the Chi cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad train wreck: Frank Merrlfield, Miles City, engineer. II.

E. McCoy, Miles City, fireman. Milton Norberg, Aberdeen, S. mall clerk. Fred Raschke, Minneapolis, express clerk.

Charles James, Miles City, bag gageman. Mrs. Milton Leer, Hettinger, s. D. Mrs.

Leroy Bailey, Billings, Mont. Juanlta Bailey, 6, and Joyce Bailey, 3, daughters of Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Ernest Johnson, Miles City.

Mrs. Josephine Frelich, Le Damon, S. D. Dickson Post, Omaha, Neb. John H.

Dana, Hartford, Wash. Dorothy L. Yonti, Butte, Mont. Mrs. Ed Arnold, Miles City.

Mrs. Marie Zimmerman, Aberdeen, S. D. Lucille Strumley, Keldron, S. D.

Fred Olenney, Everett, Wash. Tom Lallas, North Belllngham, Wash. William T. Mcintosh, Montague, Mont. Mrs.

Fred Woolsey, Miles City. HIGHWAY MOVE DRAWS PROTEST Petition to Council Dis-' approves of UsingJLlli Street as Main Route A protest against re-roatlng the state highway down Eleventh street was filed with tbe city council at Monday night's meeting. About 30 property holders, a large majority of them living on Elev enth street signed the petition of protest. City councllmen quickly turned to other matters, merely accept ing tbe petition and placing it on tile. Since the opening of the Eleventh street bridge, it has been understood an effort Is underway to have the highway re-routed from Ninth street to Eleventh street.

Cross The petitioners asserted that more children, (going to high school and Falrview school) cross Eleventh street than any other street in the city. Other arguments cited by the protestants included the fact that the reclama tion bureau has a warehouse on Eleventh street with considerable truck movement; Crescent ave nue's heavy traffic enters Eleventh street as cross-traffic; Eleventh street Is curved and assert-edly not suitable for a state high way; that many trees would have to be cut to widen Eleventh street that canal seepage will make Its maintenance difficult under heavy traffic. The petitioners asserted" that Eleventh street should be kept open for local through traffic as (Continued on Page Nine) Them! Oregon Federation Opens Annual Convention At Tillamook With Threat TILLAMOOK, June 20 (JP) The threat of a cleavage between labor and certain organized farm groups and a plea to exert a "balance of power" at the November general elections appeared today at the 36th annual convention of the AFL State Federation of Labor. The Hood River and Medford Central Labor Councils prepared to Introduce resolutions demanding a boycott on products of members of the Associated Farmers of Oregon. "No Fight With Grange" Ben T.

Osborne, executive secretary, described the agricultural group as "an offshect of an anti-labor faction from California" in his annual report to approximately 300 delegates. "Organized labor har no fight with the grange and plans none. the secretary said. "Relations with the grange and labor have always been the friendliest, and we propose to keep them that way." Osborne said be would not comment on reports grangers at their Klamath Falls convention last week said they would resist attempts to force them Into unions. Ray Gill, state grange-master, will speak the labor conclave.

Farmers at Hood River, many of them members of the Asso ciated Farmers, recently threat- ened to boycott stores which sign. ed agreements with the retail clerks union. ALGOMA LOG CREW AHEAD OF MILL, TO LAY OFF SOON FORT KLAMATH Timber op erations of the Algoma Lumber company.on.the Yawkey tract near Fort Klamath were suspended for a month this week. The crew of fallers finished work Friday night, and the trucks will be busy hauling the cut logs for a few more days, when the entire crew will be laid off. Surplus of logs on hand at the present time was given as tbe cause for the shutdown of logging here.

The mill at Algoma is still running two shifts, and it Is expected that the local crew of about sixty men will resume work here after a month's layoff. FEDERAL JURY CHARGES 18 WITH SPY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK, June 20 (JP) Three Indictments naming 18 per sons were returned today by the federal grand jury which has been engaged in the government's first intensive espionage Investigation since the world war. The indictments were based on four weeks of closed hearings. during which scores of men and women were questioned, and sev eral months of inquiry. Two surprise witnesses Johanna Hofmann, 2S, red-haired hair dresser on the North German Lloyd liner Euro pa and Private Erich laser, attached to the army air corps at Mitchell field were call ed before the grand Jury shortly before the indictments were returned.

Each is now held in bail on complaints alleging espionage activities. Neither had previously appeared before the grand Jury. Every One of Whips Flames Townsenders Open Annual Convention LOS ANGELES, June 20 (A) Russell R. Hand, member of the Townsend plan Washington legls-attve commission, gave the third Townsend national convention a tight talk today, rapped the new deal and told the old age pension advocates: "We can have what we want!" Hand, the convention keynoter, cited the Townsend plan as a way out of the recession and pointed to Dr. Francis E.

Town-sond as the leader, lnferentlally comparing him to Lincoln and Washington. Than Pension" "Everything which haa been tried during the past eight or nine years to stem the "tide' of destruction of the greatest depression In our history has failed, utterly, to give us any lasting Improvement," he said, "and we are In the throes of graver economic difficulties than we have ever beon." The Townsend plan he described as "a great deal more Important" than an old age pension. "It Is, truly, a pay-as-we-go national recovery measure." said Itnud. "which solves at once the problems of unemployment, old age security, relief, business, industrial and agricultural and which destroys the motives tor three-fourths of the crime committed in our nation. "It will do all of those things through forcing Idle, stagnated money and credit Into beneficial use as the prospective aged beneficiaries are distributed." MOTHER KILLS 3 CHILDREN, SELF AT CAMPGROUND PORTLAND, June 20 (AP) Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of a mother and three children, the oldest three years, last night In a blood-spattered, gas-fllled cabin at an automobile enmp.

An 8-months-old boy and a 3-year-old girl had bled to death from deep gashes on the throat and wrist. The mother, Mrs. Gladys E. Dahlstrom, 38, and a 2-year-old boy had suffocated from gas from an open jet. Chief Criminal Deputy Holgar Chrlstotfersen said the mother nppnrently took her own lite and those of her children Friday night.

Neighbors missed the children and smelled the escaping gas yesterday. The father, Arvid L. Dahlstrom, had been away for several days looking for work. The family arrived from Minnesota, although the nnme of the town was unknown, about a month Ago. Authorities were searching for Dnhlstrom to notify him of the tragedy.

HYPNOTISM USED IN CHILDBIRTH LOS ANGELES, June 20 (P) Pnlnless childbirth, under her husband hypnotic spoil, was re ported today by Mrs. Ethel Pardie Qaynor, 46, mother of six children. Hor latest, an eight pound baby girl, arrived yestorday and Mrs. Uaynor said "it seemed as if I doxed off for a moment. Two attending physicians certi fied she apparently suffered no pain, although an anesthetio was not used.

Dr. Loo Gaynor, psycho-ther-anlst. explained he started three weeks ago suggesting to his wife's conscious mthd that birth would be accomplished painlessly, "I could have been 1000 miles distant and the child would have been born painlessly just the same," he added. Removed Crack Train Hits Flood-Battered Montana Trestle; Possible 48 Dead MILES CITY, June 20 (UP) Rescue crews tonight be gan removing bodies from a tour ist coacn of the crack Milwaukee road flyer Olympian, submerged since Sunday morning when the train crasned through a flood-battered bridge across Custer creek, 26 miles east. A railroad crane pulled the car up on one end tonight to permit water to drain before any attempt was made to enter the coach.

Railroad officials said they expected to find 20 bodies Inside. After two mud-caked bodies had been removed from the coach, salvage operations were halted for the night to put new ribbing under the 100 ton crane. Crane operators said It was feared tbe heavy coach might topple the crane Into the river unless It were stabilized. They said the operation would take several hours. The coach seemed undamaged Inside, they said, except for a huge quantity of silt.

Workers refused to say how many bodies they could see above the mud. MILES CITY, June 20 rlTPi Tho started an Investigation tonight into the worst train disaster in its history as rescuers and railroad officials counted a possible toll of 48 dead and 67 injured the wreck of the Milwaukee Une'a transcontinental Olympian. Thirty-five bodies were recovered from the wreck. Thirty-four of these were at Miles City. One was at Glendlve.

Railroad officials' said at least 20 more were trapped In a submerged sleeper. r- Two Kscape Rescuers, hampered by the muddy torrent of at-. itetBU7o.Tr to- cut Into the coach with, acetylene torches. Men at the wreck scene said there was no' possibility any of tbe occupants wonld 'be found alive. Cranes lifted all of the cars out of the creek except the submerged coach.

It was so full of mud It was feared the coach might break before it could be raised. Only two known men. Dean Hanscom, New York City, and A. W. Olson, trainman from Tacoma, escaped from this car.

Five Badly Hart Several days will be required-to complete an accurate casualty list. Forty-five Injured Burvivora were In Miles City hospitals. Several of them were only slighly Injured. They will be released tomorrow. The condition of five persona who were injured seriously was reported unchanged.

Miss Lucille Srumley, Keldron, S. registered nurse, died late today. Most seriously hurt of the hospital group was Mrs. R. C.

Daniels of Deer Lodge, Mont. Others suffering serious Injuries were Albert Dobbins, Chicago, (Continued on Page Nine) Theodore Valk, 62, dies of injuries received Sunday morning when struck by car. Page 1. City council receives petition disapproving possible rerouting of highway down Eleventh street. Page 1.

Voters reelect A. M. Collier and Mrs. Anna Hawkins to school board. Page 1.

Fire destroys box factory, planer and warehouse of Crater Lake Lumber company at Sprague River, causing damage estimated at 2100,000. Pago 1. George Washington Harts, 51, dies from bump on head received when he jumps from horse trailer on south-end ranch. Page 1. Many California, Nevada, Oregon Masons to attend big open air meeting In Modoc Lava Beds July 9.

Page 10. More than 2000 fans witness the riding tests given to the nine Klamath county girls who are trying out for Klamath Buckaroo Days queen. Page 10. Police round up 31 offenders over the weekend. Page 5.

is this issue City Briefs Page 5 Comics and Story Page 6 Courthouse Records 9 Editorials Page 4 Family Doctor Page 4 Klamath Empire News Page 9 Market, Financial News, Page 7 Railroad News Page 10 Sports 2 Veterans' News Page 6 Today's News Digest Editorials on the. Day's News ny PRANK JKNKINH JbAYS lhi Nalom Blntesmnn: "There's a suggestion that Hoy Gardner, most elusive of bandlti a dossn yuan ko and I now emerging from Alcatrss, sent on a lertuie tour lo loll young people that 'crluia doesn't pay'." If the trip was a iicccm, and Gardner actually drew crowrti, every dollar taken In at the box office would be testimony that erlme dors ty. ylllS writer, who wouldn't pay a nickel to hear any criminal lecture, and would rogard auch an enterprise as CAPITALIZING CIUMK, hopes that now that Gardner la out he goes atralght, and feeli that If he doea go straight hit criminal record shouldn't be held against Mm. lie haa paid the price, and li entitled to hta chance. nrillfl dlapatch Is from neno: "Jamea McDonald, III, 24-.

year-old hlr lo a 112,000,000 oil fortune, Thurailay divorced two wlvea In quirk succession and announced plans lo take a third wife Friday." Ilia flrat wife divorced him early Thursday. Within an hour, he waa married again. Within TWO hours he and bis new bride bad a row, ahowed UP In court and were granted a divorce within a few, minutes. It was then thst he announced his Intention to take a third wife the next day. TT Is Idle young hellions like this im who create about half of the hatred of wealth In this coun try.

No decent American can on-iui in ANVRODT having as much money as he can honestly make tar himself, but when second and third generation bfneflclarlea of wealth 80MEII0DY ELSB has earned start making red, white and blue asaea of themaelvea It eauaea even hide-bound eonserva-tlvea to wonder If there Isn't something lo be aald for confiscatory Inheritance taxea. a FELLOW over at Depoe bay on the Oregon coast) lost his glasses over a cliff Into the surf, and claims to have found them a couple of days later with a starfish entwined around them. And back on the Atlantlo coast another guy Insists he lost his false teeth from a fishing roaael and recovered them two days later from lha stomach of a 10-pound eodflah. This latter tale would have been better If they'd had the codfish using the falsa teeth to bile off a hew of tobacco. KENNEDY DENIES INTENTION TO SEEK 1 940 NOMINATION NEW YORK, June 20 (AP) P.

Kennedy, U. 8. ambns-'aador to the court of St. Jnmos, today disclaimed any Intention to seek the democratic presidential nomination In 1040. He made the remark In re-sponse to a question asked him as the Queen Mnry, In which he waa returning from Europe, came up the harbor, i Such an ambition for him, he said, would be a "breach of faith" with Prosident Roosevelt.

Kennedy aald he would soe President Rooaevelt at the White House Thursday and would re port to him on his "economic and political observations." Gloomy Ileport Jamea Roosevolt, the president's son, met Kennedy down the bay. He declined to say whother he was "bulllah" or "boarlsh" on the economic situation. CRANIUM CRACKER You may know how to fill a gap In the conversation Adroitly, but can you fill In properly the gaps In the following statements? 1, The famous psychoanalyst who recently fled to England from Vienna was Dr. Freud. 2.

Texas Is approximately timet the site of Dolaware. 8. The best known novel by Samuol Butler la 4. George M. Cohan's middle 'name Is 6.

Coal Is a substance formed hy the partial decomposition of Answers on Page 4, Invaders Extend Zone of Operations Nearly 700 Miles Farther Inland TOKYO, June 20 (P) Japan today notified neutral powers thai the China war sone probably would he consldonibly expanded and warned them to take precautionary measures In a vast area extended some TOO miles Inland from China's cossts. Oeneral Ktushlge Ugnkl, foreign minister, conveyed the warning In a circular staloinent to all foreign embassies and legations In Tokyo which ssld: "Japan sincerely desires to avoid possible damage to the Uvea and property of foreign nationals and advises taking adequate measures along the following line: landmarks "First, foreign nationals and foreign vessels should evscuate the area south of the Yellow river and east of a lino Unking Sinn, lrhang and Hengyang. "Second, aerial and landmarks should be placed on foreign property in the aforesaid area and Immediate Information should be given the Japanese authorities concerning such property." Toward Hankow The line Indicated would run roughly south-southeast from Slsn, capital of Rhensl province In China's northwest, to the southeastern coast somewhere In the vicinity of Hankow. Chlna'a provisional capital, and would run an average of 700 miles Inland from the coast. Ichang Is a Ysngtae port In Hupch province, Hengyang Is In southeaslern Hu-nsu.

SHANGHAI, June 20 lPt Striking both from land and air, theJapanea toriay sought to bleat oul4h Jufrlcada ef rock-laden boats, at Matowchen which Is blocking their drive up the Ysngtse river to Hankow. While Japanese planes contin ued to bombard the boom, an orerland column forded the swollen Tslen river and mnrched into llotow, 30 miles northwest of Matowchen, threatening a rear attack against Chinese forces guarding the barrier. Another Japanese column, which captured Talhu yestorday, prepared to drive southward against Husung, 30 miles away, In an effort to reach Klukiang ovorlnnd. Kluklang, 25 miles southwest of Susung on the Yangtxe river, Is 136 miles by river below Ilsnkow. SCIENTISTS DIG UP VAST DEPOSIT OF AGED FOSSILS RAN FRANCISCO, June 20 (UP) University of California paleontologists today worked al a new treasure house of fossil remains discovered In the Mornga hills of Contra Costa county, which has yielded rich finds of animal fossils 10,000,000 years old.

Radioactive minerals found In the veins have enabled the scientists to estimate the age of bones of two camels, threo kinds of hy ena-like dogs, two horses, mastodons, beavers, saber-toothed cats, poccarles, orcdons, animals similar to the rabbit, skunk, wonsol, raccoon, giant roplllcs, a hawk, a small bird and a goose. The paleontologists suspected the area ns a fossil bed since 1928, theorising that It was a former lake bed loft by the retreat of waters of a huge bay extend ing Inland to Nevada. Animals came to drink and to die and were swallowed up by the gumbo. Three years ago a young atudont, King Rirhey, was assigned to field work In the area and recently struck the vein of the ancient water-hole, on the side of a slope and slanting In toward the center or the hill. The flold workora have barely tapped the surface of the find which promises to be one of the most complete records of animal life and time ever discovered, The vein may take years to work out.

The painstaking field work starts with picks and shovels and as promising soil Is reached smnll hand picks and spoons are used. The more delicate fossils are worked out with brushes and Im mediately painted with shellao to protect them from the air. Chief interest so far hns been In the cnmol skolotons, one of which Is much larger than any camel known today, Camols were believed to have originated on the North American continent. PLKADS GUILTY LOS ANGELES, June 20 UP) Snndra Martin, buxom secretary to screen star Slmone Simon, pleaded guilty today to three counts of forgery In rnlslng the French actresB1 checks for a total of 602.60, Judge A. A.

Scott set July 19 for sentence and hearing on probation. Andrew M. Collier and Anna Hawkins, Incumbents, were returned to their positions on the city elementary school board Monday, in. on of ythe heaviest votes ever rocorded In a school election here. Collier led the candidates, with 439 votes out of 672 cast.

Mrs. Hawkins received 329 rotes, 49 more than Mrs. Nelson Reed, who ran third. Trailing far behind was Sam H. Ackerman, with 58.

Votes Pour In In the late afternoon and early evening voters poured Into the Fremont school building to participate in the election. Collier Is a veteran on the board and has served as its chairman. Mrs. Hawkins was recently appointed to fill a vacancy. County school patrons also elected one board member and named members of local school committees, but returns from that election were not yet available.

C. B. Brown, Bonanza, was the only candidate who filed for the school board post. He is the incumbent. MERRILL, June 30 (Special) E.

T. Crawford was reelected to a three year term on the Merrill school board when six people turned out for the election Monday. Other members of the board, not up for vote this year, are Tom Chatburn and Ivan Icenbice. MALIN. June 20 (Special) Victor Vasak was elected to the Malln school board Monday, replacing Mcle Loosley who was not up for reelection.

The total vote was 19. Other members of Malln's board are Antone Fetrasek and John Re-ber. Queens MISHAPS TAKE 2 Fall From Trailer Kills Merrill Man; Aged Pedestrian Injured, Dies Accidents took the lives of two Klamath county residents In Iho course of Iho weekend. Theodore Valk. 62, died Monday after being struck down by a car early Sunday morning.

George Washington Harts, 51 died Sunday night as the result of a fall from a moving truller. Valk waa fatally Injured when he was struck down on The Dallcs-Callfornla highway near Hed Hock tavern at about 1:30 Sunday morning. He was walking In the direction of Klamath Kalis from the rondhouse and apparently walked In front of a car driven north hy Mnrlon Crawmer of Tulo-lake, according to state police. A state policeman who was In the csr behind Crawmer said the car did not leave the highway at any tlmo and that Crawmer stopped Immediately. Dr.

(ioorgo Ad-ler, coroner, said that probably no Inquest would he hold. Valk la survived by his wife, Dora, and hns a son and daughter living In Klamath Falls. The body Is at Ward's Klamath funeral home. Tho other accident occurred at the A. E.

Fugate ranch about three miles southwest of Merrill, where Harts had been working (Continued on Page Nlue) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. K. Cincinnati 3 7 1 Boston 1 10 1 11. Davis and Fotle, Lannlng (10) and Mueller.

(13 Innings). NATIONAL LKAGUK R. H. E. Chicago 6 110 Brooklyn 1 7 0 Lee, Posedel (7) and Hartnett; Hamlin and Phelps.

Now York I 11 0 St. Louis 4 8 0 Chnndler and Dickey; Tletje, Walkup (8) and Heath. Night Wire Flashes HQVKK7.R PLAY AHHIXIITO June 20 (UP) The United Stutes nml Great Britnln, chief sources of Japanese credit, nro preparing for Joint flnnnclnl action nulnst Japan to prevent the Islnml em-plro from creel lug a nnll of eeononilo restrictions around China to the exclusion of Anglo-American trade, high administration official told the United Press, AUTUMN HKCOVKRY A II 1 June 20 (UP) -President. Hoosovclt lina been informed by Ills economic advisors thnt there Is little hope of business upswing: until late Aiimmn and Hint tlio real effect of tho now ft.7BR,000,000 (II) spcnillnK-lenilinit will not bo felt until next spring, the United Press learned tonight. OHOICE LONDON, Juno 20 (UP) Trillin Minister Novlllo Clinm-berlnln una revealed today to have given Premier Benito Mussolini tho choice of withdrawing 12,000 Italian tilnckshlrts from Hpnin or working for an enrly nrmlstlce thero ns conditions for putting tho Anglo-Itallnn friendship pact Into operation, r- 1 These nine Klamath girls, pretty and trim In their riding clothes, put their horses through the required tests at the fairgrounds Sunday afternoon before more than 2200 spectators who were there to applaud their favorite candidate for Klamath Buckaroo Days queen.

Reading from left to right is Jean Fugnto of Merrill; Carol Jane Loosley of Fort Klamath; Annie Worlow of Malln; Anna Anderson of Bentty; Hasol Howard and Dawn Evcrltt of Klamath FallB; Hazel Noble of Langell Valley; Betty Stebbina of Klamath Falls and Naomi Lincoln of Klamath Falls. (Story on page 10.).